Major project and international shortlists

Shortlists for the Major Project and International categories of the British Construction Industry Awards complete NCE's pre-Award BCIA coverage.

The winners for all project-specific categories and The Prime Minister's Award, Best Practice Award, Local Authority Award, Conservation Award, Environmental Award, Regeneration Award and Judges Special Award will be revealed next Thursday evening, 13 October, at the BCIA dinner, Grosvenor House, London.

Full results of the BCI Awards 2005 will be included in a special supplement to NCE and sister magazine the Architects' Journal on 20 October.

Major Project Award for building and civil engineering projects valued at over £50M Sponsored by HSE, the Health & Safety Executive The judges commented that they had to choose between 'a hugely impressive and varied range of projects, all of which are very, very strong contenders for the prize'. Twenty three projects were entered. Six reached the shortlist.

Airside Road Tunnel, Heathrow Airport.

ART consists of twin very shallow, very large tunnels bored without incident for 1.4km under taxiways, and crossing live rail tunnels and critical airport services as a link from Terminals 1, 2 and 3 to T5. With client BAA taking all the risk, the design and construction teams concentrated entirely on safe and economical delivery of the best technical solution.

Bachy Soletanche; Beton & Monierbau; Herrenknecht Pier 6, Gatwick Airport Same client as ART. Similar problem, entirely different solution. The world's largest passenger footbridge spans a live taxiway plied by Jumbos, the largest jets that can use the stands. The 2,500t bridge was prefabricated, fully glazed and wheeled into place overnight.

Rowen (steelworks); NG Bailey (building services) The Sage, Gateshead Also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award Gateshead's latest great public work is spectacularly perched on the side of the Tyne gorge.

The Sage is a totally inclusive music and education centre with three distinctive performance theatres within a large informal enclosure.

Waterman Partnership Tinsley Viaduct Strengthening, Sheffield Also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award Tinsley's lean steel box girder, double-decked crossing of the Don Valley was much modified soon after it opened in 1968.

It has a hybrid precast and insitu frame with direct applied decoration on its superbly finished steel-moulded concrete.

Client: Annes Gate Property plc (PFI contractor) Cost: £182M Principal designer: Terry Farrell & Partners Structural engineer: Pell Frischmann Contractor: Bouygues UK Other firms: Flack & Kurtz (M&E consultant); Ecovert FM (maintainer/operator) International Award for projects outside the UK for which either the principal designer or the principal contractor is a British firm Sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers A shortlist of six projects was selected from the entry of 14 River Po Footbridge, Turin The slender boat-shaped steel box girder deck of Turin's Po footbridge is designed to follow the form of the forces acting on the structure. It is deeper and wider at the piers of the 70m long main span thinning at the centre and extremities of its overall 140m length. In effect the deck was hand made on the river bank. Turin's rich skills in sheet metal forming and welding, exemplified in the past by bespoke coachwork, helped make the complex shape a reality.

Whitbybird/B&C Associati Contractor: Tekno3 British Council Offices, Alexandria, Egypt Also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Award With the lease of its old offices running out the British Council wanted a small new building as a shop window in Alexandria that would be calm and serene.

It also had to be as open and welcoming as possible given security needs, built to UK standards of safety and to meet UK safety and disabled requirements.

Joseph Gartner Athlone Civic Centre Library and Central Square, Co Westmeath, Ireland Against severe competition from Irish firms, Keith Williams Architects won the commission for Athlone Civic Centre which involves designing everything from the overall masterplan to doorhandles. Working closely with Arup, the fi rm's concept of very large precast concrete panel construction was developed with prototype structures.

Client: Athlone Town Clerk Cost: £10.6M Principal designer: Keith Williams Architects Structural engineer: Arup (London & Limerick offices) Contractor: John Sisk & Sons (Gallway) Airside Centre A500, Zurich Airport, Switzerland The brief for the GrimshawArup team at Zurich Airport was effectively to create a spectacular structure that would unify 50 years of ad hoc building and become the image that appears on local postcards.

The Airside Centre also had to be very functional and have a low energy consumption.

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